Here is the list of the persons who won Noble Prize in Physics in the last 20 years. 2010 Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov 2009 Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E.
Smith 2008 Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa 2007 Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg 2006 John C. Mather, George F. Smoot 2005 Roy J.
Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch 2004 David J.
Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek 2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L.
Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett 2002 Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi 2001 Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E.
Wieman 2000 Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G.Veltman 1998 Robert B.
Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui 1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D.
Phillips 1996 David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C.
Richardson 1995 Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines 1994 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G.
Shull 1993 Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr. 1992 Georges Charpak 1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1990 Jerome I.
Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E.Taylor.
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